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7hji wa^bmapl salisbury *Â«â€¢ Â« -'"â€¢Â» jhi 17 1s45 wr at authorised to announce james e kerr for the county court cle_kshi of rowan i _ au.iorised toannounce john h hardie a b , â– .; it for the ounty court clerkship of rowan w re authorized to announce john s john v.-r i as a candidate for the superior court clerkship ve are authi rized to announce obadiah wood m as a candidate for the office of superior court | rowan comity for congress daniel ml barringer .,..,. mason b tifttle no 38 william .}.:,-, ii ills exchange are our sole agents in the â– veie yorkjor receiving subscriptions and ad nents land speculators there seems to be a little quarrel going oul in mississippi between a certain pr wm m gwin a land speculator and respondent of the " true democrat a weekly newspaper published by o c dease at paulding in the course of which i in vbles fisher's name is lugged in â€” mr ftsner it is known here has had busi iut in mississippi that has required attention for a great part of his time for the last ten years ; and there are but rery few persons in ihis district at all ac quainted with the nature of that business or its extent now we publish as much of the quarrel referred to as is in our pos session in order that all our readers may learn something about the whole matter and especially mr fisiikr's connection with it we have garbled no statement but have given them all as we found them in the paper referred to which is dated june 2.-th 1845 we have done this in order that we may not be charged with injustice if there is any false statement t assertion made and we know of none nml it affects im r fisher we are not to blame for if choctaw claims extract's from letters from samuel gain register at cltocchuma mississippi to ilu commissioner ef the general land olfter may 5th 1835 i might also state that this delay of in iii^in tin public lands in the choctaw purchase into market is the iml bed that will bring forth thousands of fraudulent claims ui''Â°r the treaty and you need not be surprised if it does not forever su percede another public sale by sweeping ofl some six or seven hundred sections of tbe choicest lands by claims coined to suit iiu times may 7th 1835 these claims choctaw are not just â€” congress has tailed to act on the subject as was expected ; and there is no good reason why the government should not have th disposal of her domain until their claims an sustained by an act of con they are held by speculators and not by indians : have been purchased at reduced prices ; and the assignees were it the lasl session of congress lobby mem bers in washington ... these binds arc worth fifty times as nuchas the lands the indians pretendedly actually lived upon those that had set tlements and they arc not one in a hun dred lived on very poor land : and if a strict examination was had the very same lands or landsof a similar quality could be hail in their immediate vicinity and if they must have them let them be taken there ihere is no justice iii their filiating from the poor pine lands east of yallobusha to the richest river lands on the mississippi there are plenty of lands yet to be sold in that section to satisfy all just claims but i querry very much if you keep the door open whether there will be in a short tune enough in the choctaw purchase to satisfj the real and fictitious claims * i have seen enough to know that miy thing ean be proved where rich river it-is are in view in recommending the ibove i have discharged my duty and et the result bt as it may i shall hereaf er look on with indifference as i have alien heretofore between two fires â€” the peculators the government and vile hnderers november 24th 1835 1 am more that ever satisfied lhat it is lie settled purpose and determination of a set of speculators to sweep lhe lands of hf choctaw country under the pretended claims arising under the fourteenth arti under the order of the president fo suspend some ofthe lands until the claims are investigated he says " ad vanta^e has been taken and this order limited as it is on the face of it to the last [ ongress is held up as authority for sweep '"- every acre of the remaining country circumstances much more aggrava '"' limn the grand yazoo speculation some | iirtji years ago hordes of indians who ve till plain cases are now conjured up and under pretended purchase a set of ravenous speculators arc carrying every thing before them already have they novjn up the sales at columbus ; and af ter devouring that carcass they have com menced here 1 feel much embarrassed '"' lhis subject many of my warm friends re interested in them ; some few compa ratively of the claims themselves are good in in an attempt to stem this current 1 odds arc against me on every score jj public duty Â« " the subject de rves the serious consideration of con the carolina watchman bruner & james ) editors & proprietors \ " keer a cnfck 5 ai1 y"vr ' ' 1 is safe ( new series ftcixrs i mi . and liberty < _â€¢ gen'l harrison } number 12 of volume ii salisbury n c july 19 1845 gress as scleral of that body are either 1 directly or indirectly interested in these claims whose influence with persever ance and importunities of the claimants as lobby members will i fear have the effect of forcing them through without re flection or a strict regard to the interest ofthe united states it is apparent that under a very few good cases one of the grandest schemes of fraud is non in prig ress and near con summation that has ever beta started iu this country compendium ef testimony taken before the select committee on the pari of the house of representatives of the slate ef mis sissippi to whom nets referred the exam a nu na ion of the frauds charged to have in i n committed under the 14th article of the treat ij ef dancing rabbit creek 30th january 183.3 colonel william ward united states agent for the choctaws at the time of the treaty aforesaid being sworn answered as follows : " that he knew of no company formed for the purpose of purchasing choctaw lands ; that he kept a registry of names to register applicants under the 14th article when application was made according to the treaty ; that when one indian applied for himself he registered him but when one applied for many he refused notifying him at the same time that each must apply for himself he re gistered all these applications in a bond book sent to the war oflice from three to six of these indians who had properly applied were accidentally omitted on my register general john watts of jasper being sworn says : " a company was formed â€” he saw the agents of this company at ball ! plays surrounded by several hundred in dians making their marks for them on blank sheets of paper and apparently ta king the number of their children when the indians did not themselves touch the paper and the indians when he saw this had no interpreter c lames ellis member of the legislature from xeshoba concurs in the statement f general watts and also knows some of the indians who went west and have since returned or been brought back and whose names are among those now presented as having a right to reservations ; and that he was told by one of those agents if he would introduce no resolution in the legislature calculated to bring this fraud before congress he would not interfere with him in his county matters that the government had left the door open to fraud and it was no harm to make use of it general samuel dale member from lauderdale knows of locations having been made in his county which locations he presumes were made under lhe 1 41 li article on which no indian has ever lived to his knowledge and on which there is no mark of field or house ; and on which he does not believe any indian has lived for fifty years and lhe.se floats were laid on lands on which white men were settled who had before they heard of the loca tion of said floats gone to columbus to buy these lands at the public sales hon samuel j gholson states that a company was formed to obtain indian claims ; that he heard a man who called himself fisher say at columbus that if the settlers residing on the lands located for the indians would bind themselves not to oppose the claims the company would convey the settler a quarter section to in clude his improvement at 1 xj5 per acre and the residue at 8 per acre ; and woud not require pay till title was perfected â€” said fisher also stated that he had no doubt if the company were let alone they would be able to get title to land for all the indians that had removed in the coun try whether they had been registered or nut : and that he did not believe that any other signification of intention on the part of the indians to become citizens would be required than proof of their being in the country at that time i heard d ii mor gan say that he believed a great many in dians had gone west of the mississippi in ignorance of their rights ; that the compa ny had an agent west buying indian claims and bringing the indian back to the choctaw nation it is said morgan a first-rate business and i have an inter est in it said fisher stated that they were to get one-half the lands and that they would cost the company some ten cents per acre g w donnell editor of the southern argus a whig paper at columbus stated that there was great excitement against the company : to allay the opposition and excitement it was proposed to take in one hundred popular men i was spoken of but believing the claims fraudulent refus ed to have any thing to do with them â€” mr l n hatch was the projector of this plan mr lionnell said it was one ofthe most stupendous frauds that had ever been attempted and could be easily blown up ifcc william dodd member from attala said there was great excitement : that col boyd of attala had informed him that certain propositions had been made to him to become interested that it was the ob ject of the company to get as many men of influence interested with them as pos sible so that all could make a handsome profit : and that those popular men could allay the prejudice and opposition to those hclaims most ofthe land floated was first rate ; and the indians had never lived on h isaac jones member from winston said !)>â€¢- knew many indians who had left the country and went west with the otherin dians at the expense of the government hand were gone about twelve months and have returned to this state with the guns they received from the government mr lusher told me he was locating agent for tin indians and was among the indians above alluded to ; that many sections were reserved in winston on which as he be lieved no indian ever did live â– general stephen cocke senator from monroe states that from the reports and statements of oihers he believes many and great frauds have been attempted ; that diaries fisher informed him that his com pany had obtained some two thousand sec tions from the indians of which they were to have one half for their trouble ; that the company consisted of said fisher william m gwin a f young d w wright wiley davis and one porter of tennessee fisher said the indians were to have one thousand sections himself five hundred and gwin and the rest the bal ance fisher c co had got from the in hdians and irrevocable power of attorney to all said one thousand sections for the indians many of these lands were loca ted and on lands very superior to those the indians lived on he knows several chickasaws that were passed ofl as choc â– aws and had lands located general falconer colonel home john c thomas bmembers of the legislature also testified mpreamblc and resolutions relative to the i choctaw treaty anel certain alledged i frauds i whereas the united states did by a leertain treaty held and made with the htribe of choctaw indians residing for the htirne being within the limits of the state hot mississippi to wit : the treaty of dan icing rabbit creek made and concluded ion the twenty-eighth day of september la d eighteen hundred and thirty : i and whereas by the 14th article of said ireaty certain reservations of land were ijranted to such indians as should remain imi such land for five years next succeed ing such treaty : i and whereas such claimants were by lhe 14th article in the treaty referred to l.ompelied to signify their intention of l-iaiming under the provisions of said trea ly within six months after the ratification ihercof or forever forfeit the right thus re quired : b and whereas it appears from recent de bycloptnents that the large claims to land bhave been preferred conveying the richest band most valuable portious ot the unsold bchoctaw lands and purporting to be foun bded on and growing out of the treaty a bbove relerred to and un a part of which bland thus claimed no choctaw indian beither dons now or ever did reside : b and whereas it is evident from the facts bof the case that these claims are mani bfestly unjust in their character oppressive bin the result ol their operation on the free bmen of mississippi and calculated to se bcurc no ultimate benefit to the indian ori iginally claiming but in their consumma ition will have direct tendency to impair ithe confidence which the good people of ithis state have in the correctness of the llaw and in the honesty of the administra llors of our public institutions w and whereas this body have satisfacto iry evidence of the fact that a large por ition ofthe claims to said land under the provision of the treaty already referred to are set up and attempted to be sustained on the testimony of indians who are un acquainted with the nature of an oath and utterly regardless of the obligation thus incurred and on the testimony of oth er individuals wholly unworthy of the con fidence of a moral and intelligent com munity and whereas the permission of such abandoned and licentious profligacy would injure our community disgrace our social and political compact and license corrup tion and perjury to stalk at large through our land : now therefore be it resolved by the legislature of he slate of mississippi that our senators in congress be instructed and our represen tatives requested to use the most speedy and efficient means to prevent the consum mation of such of said titles to said land as have originated in fraud to the end that the aforesaid land may be disposed of in the regular way and in accordance with the law in such case made and provided resolved that his excellency charles lynch be requested at as early a date as may be possible to furnish our senators and representatives in congress with a copy of the foregoing preamble and reso lution and with the testimony taken there on with a request that they lay the same before both branches of congress hermitage jan 19 1s41 dear sir â€” i have received this morn ing by mail the enclosed pamphlet i re fer to page 1 1 of said pamphlet for my enclosing it to you there my name is used sow i state without fear of con tradiction that there was no one as my agent ever purchased a foot of land from the choctaws these purchases i have always believed were the most stupen dous frauds ever attempted upon the go vernment i think so still and if proper ly investigated will i have no doubt be fully established to prevent fraud the choctaw treaty conferred reservations to include the indian improvement instead of approving these sales 1 always viewed them as frauds of the blackest kind and do still ; and believe that there is not one of them ought to be confirmed to a white man scarcely able to wield my pen i have thought it right to say thus much to you in your situation ; and am very respect fully vour obedient servant andrew jackson from the paulding miss true democrat no iv dr wm m gwin : of late gracious sir i see in the newspapers you and your special friends are taking a vast deal of pains to purge your character of indian speculations and frauds it would afford me great pleasure to recant the unfavor able declarations which i make against 3'our private and public reputation could i do so consistently with a sense of pub lic duty if you have any thing to say or prove that will rebut the testimony of gen stephen cocke taken before the select committee on the part of the house of re presentatives of the state of mississippi in the name of your own reputation pro duce it to the people where is col fish er why do you not produce his state ment if to be had to establish your inno cence ? gen cocke says " that charles fisher informed him that his fisher's company had obtained some two thousand sections of land from the indians for which the company was to have one-half that the company consisted of said fisher yourself a f young d w wright wiley davis and one porter of tenn his testimony went on further to establish that the indians were to have a thousand sections fisher five hundred and yourself and others the remainder being more than five hundred sections that the company had procured an irrevocable power of at torney from the indians to their one thou sand sections that they were located on lands superior to those occupied by the in dians and that the company passed off several chickasaw indians for choctaws and had their lands locettcel but your sinking reputation required some great effort to retrieve it â€” therefore you wrote to gen jackson to certify to your good character did you inform him that you were of the company engaged in indian speclations ? if you had be kind enough to read what he would have said to you in reply : " no one as my agent ever purchased a foot of land from the choctaws these purchases 1 have always believed were the most stupendous frauds ever attempt ed upon the government 1 think so still and if properly investigated will i have no doubt be fully established â€” general jackson's letter to t liar tie ij crawford com ind aff jetn 19 1814 now sir gen'l cocke connects your name with these choctaw purchases and gen jackson pronounced them in 1844 " the most stupendous frauds ever attempted upon the government had you stated to gen jackson that you were one of the company engaged in buying indian scrip and reservations he would have declared the depravity of your cause and the justice of public indignation at one period you stated there were many honest indian speculators ; of late neces sity has driven you as i am informed to a shifting ofthe whole ground of your de fence at first you told the people no thing could be clearer than the justness of your intentions towards the choctaw tribe of indians but it seems now that you have been interested in their affairs fur ther than your love of mankind would justify your love for the poor indians has no precedent unless it is in that man who with one hand puts a shilling in the urn of charity and with the other takes out a pound perhaps sir i am somewhat severe â€” yet doctor that wounded spirit shall be healed by no measured apology when you have made your defence com plete you are now sir an appellant to the public in the cause of your reputation and if the people find that you have been the innocent subject of vituperative slan der they will make with you common cause and heartily join in your resentment you once had the respect and esteem of your state â€” but your virtues of which the people then boasted are now disgrac ed that honor for which you were so high ly esteemed is now lost if your public conduct and private acts do not deserve the punishment which the present appear ance of things inflict upon you in view of common light i will not only cease to in vade your reputation but at once devote my pen to the cause of injured innocence jefferson oct13 here is another article extracted from the " yicksburg sentinel of may 20th 1844 edited by walter hickey this article is not editorial in the " senti nel but a communication as will appear from its heading this we also copy lit erally â€” submitting it to the reader with no other remark than that he shall read it and form his own conclusions as to the truth of its statements and the extent to which mr fisher is implicated in the frauds charged upon the speculators there in named and spoken of correspondence ofthe vicksburg sentinel leake co may d capl hickcy â€” dear sir â€” we seldom get a sight of your paper every man in this county opposed to the choctaw spec ulators would take it if they believed it would ever reach them lt would make your hair stand on end to hear the curses that are lavished on you and lavins â€” robins and claiborne come in for a full share and indeed the whole democratic party of vicksburg the hopahka peo ple are dreadfully flurried and they take it out in cursing the people here are delighted at your course they wish to see the speculators put down put we are afraid to speak above our breath â€” there are so many bullies and despera does at work that one's life would not be safe an instant the poor indians â€” but of them i will speak in my next i send you this by private hand pray do not disclose my name and if you write to me direct your letter to ofahoma or thomas town but by no means to hopohaka â€” send the sentinel for me once a week to the mississippian ollice jackson i will write lo uen price and ask him to send it to me by private hand ; if it conies by mail i wiil never get it and to be known as a subscriber will put my life in danger and expose my family to insult from for ester and his crowd i scott county i dear sir â€” we are delighted to see you i in the shoes of dr i lagan raking down i the speculators the people are with you i the best land in this county i.s claimed by i the indians who have all agreed to give i one half to jack smith : a man with one i eye can see that he will get the whole of i it jack is a right good fellow in other i respects but our citizens cannot see where i in his right lies to so many thousand a i cres ofthe best land in the countv claim i ed by these indians and for which he has i not paid a dollar i kemper county i dear sir â€” send me two copies of the i sentinel the enclosed warrant if sold i at the usual rate will pay for them and i leave a balance which you can deposite i for me with mr bowman of jackson ofl the firm of bowman and wilson mail i con ii actors we \\ ant you to pour a con 1 stant fire upon the speculators we know i them well here forester has several a i gents in this county and his strikers arc i constantly among the indians ben mc i ilvaine of this county is his right hand i man ; they expect to get 300,000 worth i of scrip out cf the indians under mcll i vaine's control mellvaine is a democrat i but you will spare no man on account of i his politics forester and his partners i have taken deeds and bonds from all the i indians in anticipation of the action of the i board iu the adjoining county of nes i hoba things are just as bad shortly af i ter the treaty charles fisher and sandy i young went through the country and i bought up the mug-ga-busha claims for a i mere trifle they were the partners of i judge wright and dr gwin big hugh i mcdouold was their interpreter there i are several thousand ofthese indians the i most ignorant lazy drunken creatures in i the nation mcdonald has lived constant i ly among them and has perfect control i over them for some reason or other he i has entered into new contracts with them i and though he has never been worth a i dollar he now holds deeds from all those i indians and if he board allows their claims h he will be master of several hundred thou i sand acres of land nothing is now claim h ed by fisher lie appears only as mc i donold's attorney mcdonold claims tu i be attorney for the indians he was ori i ginally interpreter for fisher and gwin h it is in this way that fisher and gwinde i ny having any interest they claim mil h lions in the names of other men there i are two other speculators in neshoba h jacoway and clements the former is a i partner of foresters and claims all the h indians over in sumpter county many of i whom are free negroes with black skins i flat noses and wooly heads thpy swore i they were indians and the board receiv i ed their testimony as i have been told â€” i no jury here would attach a feather's i weight to such testimony jacoway is i forester's principal striker clements is i a man of some little property ; i know no i thyig of him of my own knowledge but i have heard jacoway say that he could i send him to the penitentiary for a trans i action in the land office at columbus â€” i these speculators are so jealous of each i other that they are constantly at war ac i cusing each other of swindling i passed i one flay at yazoo village while the board i sat there and heard both forester and i jacoway speak in the most insulting way i of fisher and clements and i afterwards i heard judge wright say at his own room i as col fisher rode by that he was the i greatest villain then living and that mc h donald knew it i am willing to make i oath to this col graves and the hon â– thomas j word and mr ellis the in i trrpreter were all present he said that â– he the judge had bought in the indian i rights and had paid mcdonald to interpret â– for him ; that fibber and gwin were m â– h^'th him ; that they had bought up me â– onald and shuttled every thing over in jii-s name and now when they had got a board favorable to the claims and were mahout to realize a fortune they were try hng to swindle him out of every farthing ; hhat he had depended ou gwin ; but that hie had been up and had shuttled as much his any of them and that he judge wright h-miild and would blow the whole claims in the devil ! â€” i repeat that mr word mr ellis and col craves heard this iu hny presence aud 1 have no doubt the kame was heard at oilier times by every on the ground wright and were very intimate claiborne m.m.-kae ami ellis all occupied the same and i doubt not they can prove what ll say 1 have been astonished that col in bis publication did not touch hon these matters he can prove all he wants to prove by judge wright and oth crs 1 am sure now that i think of it h.mr mcrae stated many of fisher's ma bmruvres at pattern's springs last summer hand i expect can tell more than any other ilium about this whole fraud for he is an observing man and ge.es into every crowd iitnion iiotelt molksvii.le.n.r.gj i the undersigned ll espectfully tnnoonc to the j.iit.lu ihai they h a have recently packaged ib_l luge and commodi h ~ fubli lloiiso in mocksville !>.:... coonty _. th i 7/.?otrl i they have refitted and newly famished the same anj opened it for ihe me of the public j those aegiiamt with this taiid.it will he nnneceasary lo say that the is nearly new ; tiie rooms large and airv of nn i un.tru.tiuti and that the entire e_:ahl___niien u ith its hout-i.iiil line's and lja<'4>iit ground most cnnitnodioiisly and comfortably arrange the attention ofthe undersigned will be directed lo comfort and well being ol those who may honor with their patronage â– h v ft reynolds h mocksville february jo 1845 â€” v44 iciieap cheaper cheapest ! r i h i â€¢' suhsoriher respertfn ____! " s___h i b iy r1 ln i l f # j i lrsrl lu l*u5)''c t'i:it '"* stl t'uÂ»"i â– -- iu carry on i m *\ v__>_u'__._.__i _Â£_ ja-siaaobi-a-s in salisbory on main str.-.-t a few doors nth of j __ bu ivforphy's store and josl opposite the rowan hotel i he has on hand a large assortment of furniture and in his employment t!i best of workmen and uses th ]â€¢â€¢â– >-. materials the country affords he has on hand bat all times an assortment of such work as will suit the swan of the i oun try such is bureaus sideboards see bre/>iri cup-boards tables candle-stands wash wstands bedstead i cane bottom and windsor chairs fyc â– a neat assortment of coffins constantly kept on hand so that any p r on can i e accommodated in thai line and hum prices shall be made to snit costomers not only in thut hartiele hm in ail ofthe above mentioned articles the subscriber would say to the public that they would do hwell to call ami examine before they purchase as !Â«â€¢ m ht.-nds hereafter to s.-il cheaper than work has ever bern hsold in this state h a . kinds of country produce and lumber will betaken in exchange for work david watson â– salisbury april 19 1845 2stf i look at this i cheap pf ubniture i r â– 1 he subscriber respectfully informs hi friends and h l the public that he sti.l continues to carry on the i cabinet l;i\i_i f.u ine lin salisbury on main street a few doom south of j & w m - store and just opposite the watchman printing mo_.ce and keeps in his employment the best of work - im i he has on hand al all times such w..ik as will suit ithe wants of the peop i â€” buch as mahogany * iheny and i walnut sideboards bureaus secretaries china-pn icupboards tables bedsteads ladies work-stands candle-stands v i he also has on hand a large and neal imwuiiiii ill of if'offin and will constantly keep a supply arranged hi in the small st to th largest bile i all jobs done by me shall be in tli best style and ih h-harge lower than i any other shop of the kind in this iplace all kinds of country produce and lumber will bu taken in exchange for work a reasonable credit will he given to punctual dealers kincheon elliott april 5th i_4 49 ly ff_rspring wi sum__.er_a i":iÂ»|iiu:is for 1*15 at iln old tailoring establishment horace ii beard has just received ol mr f u_t , the i.ondon pan ri ml philadelphia l ion for the spring !. sttmmer of 1844 which far surpasses any thin f the kind heretofore published he stiil earn.-s on the tailoring business in all its various branches al h - o d stand where he is ev.-r ready 7o me i and ae ommodate his old ami new customers with fashionable cutting and making of tru ments not to be surpassed by any in th southern coun try punctuality d a faithful work as has been always shall be his aim and object thankful for past encouragement he hopes tf merit its continuance p s reference he deems unnecessary as hi rxperi ni and work forth last thirteen yean i , show april 12 1845 --.-.- ' h h beard new spring and summer fashions for 184 ! thomas dickson respo tfnl yinforamhis-frienda and the public that he still carries on the tai loring business in all i7 various branches two doors ahove j &. w murphy's or where te :- ready to execute all orders ol his customers ia a . y,e and man ik r i j â€¢ â– - inferior to any work don in ihi par of the coon try he is also in the regular receipt of th sew ytillk fashions and prepared to accommodate the tastes ofthe fashionable at ali times the following ia a list of hia price for making fine cloth coat 5 ofl " " thin summer coat â€¢'* m " janes coat 2 00 2 so " pants 1 m <Â« vests 1 j all work will h warr-iti â– 'â– lo 6 w ii ond to be made well may it 1845 tf 3 to the public tfif sul,scril''-r t:tk lliis method of inthr min thf public thai lie till continue to carrv on ae bu-u_e of stone cutting as usual at his granite t.iarv seven inilf south of sajisbury near tbe old cbarlesfanuroad where in is tlÂ»!e to ii|>j)ty all orders lor mill stones oi the best grit and ou the shortest notice ai.o tor sale at ilir lowest ri'-'-s window sills floor sills door st j rough building rocks tomb stones gold grinders a c ajc j holtshouser sali.bury nov â€¢_, 1844 â€” lj21 n ij orders for any of the above wrought articles directed to nie at salisbury will be punctually attended to j ii

7hji wa^bmapl salisbury *Â«â€¢ Â« -'"â€¢Â» jhi 17 1s45 wr at authorised to announce james e kerr for the county court cle_kshi of rowan i _ au.iorised toannounce john h hardie a b , â– .; it for the ounty court clerkship of rowan w re authorized to announce john s john v.-r i as a candidate for the superior court clerkship ve are authi rized to announce obadiah wood m as a candidate for the office of superior court | rowan comity for congress daniel ml barringer .,..,. mason b tifttle no 38 william .}.:,-, ii ills exchange are our sole agents in the â– veie yorkjor receiving subscriptions and ad nents land speculators there seems to be a little quarrel going oul in mississippi between a certain pr wm m gwin a land speculator and respondent of the " true democrat a weekly newspaper published by o c dease at paulding in the course of which i in vbles fisher's name is lugged in â€” mr ftsner it is known here has had busi iut in mississippi that has required attention for a great part of his time for the last ten years ; and there are but rery few persons in ihis district at all ac quainted with the nature of that business or its extent now we publish as much of the quarrel referred to as is in our pos session in order that all our readers may learn something about the whole matter and especially mr fisiikr's connection with it we have garbled no statement but have given them all as we found them in the paper referred to which is dated june 2.-th 1845 we have done this in order that we may not be charged with injustice if there is any false statement t assertion made and we know of none nml it affects im r fisher we are not to blame for if choctaw claims extract's from letters from samuel gain register at cltocchuma mississippi to ilu commissioner ef the general land olfter may 5th 1835 i might also state that this delay of in iii^in tin public lands in the choctaw purchase into market is the iml bed that will bring forth thousands of fraudulent claims ui''Â°r the treaty and you need not be surprised if it does not forever su percede another public sale by sweeping ofl some six or seven hundred sections of tbe choicest lands by claims coined to suit iiu times may 7th 1835 these claims choctaw are not just â€” congress has tailed to act on the subject as was expected ; and there is no good reason why the government should not have th disposal of her domain until their claims an sustained by an act of con they are held by speculators and not by indians : have been purchased at reduced prices ; and the assignees were it the lasl session of congress lobby mem bers in washington ... these binds arc worth fifty times as nuchas the lands the indians pretendedly actually lived upon those that had set tlements and they arc not one in a hun dred lived on very poor land : and if a strict examination was had the very same lands or landsof a similar quality could be hail in their immediate vicinity and if they must have them let them be taken there ihere is no justice iii their filiating from the poor pine lands east of yallobusha to the richest river lands on the mississippi there are plenty of lands yet to be sold in that section to satisfy all just claims but i querry very much if you keep the door open whether there will be in a short tune enough in the choctaw purchase to satisfj the real and fictitious claims * i have seen enough to know that miy thing ean be proved where rich river it-is are in view in recommending the ibove i have discharged my duty and et the result bt as it may i shall hereaf er look on with indifference as i have alien heretofore between two fires â€” the peculators the government and vile hnderers november 24th 1835 1 am more that ever satisfied lhat it is lie settled purpose and determination of a set of speculators to sweep lhe lands of hf choctaw country under the pretended claims arising under the fourteenth arti under the order of the president fo suspend some ofthe lands until the claims are investigated he says " ad vanta^e has been taken and this order limited as it is on the face of it to the last [ ongress is held up as authority for sweep '"- every acre of the remaining country circumstances much more aggrava '"' limn the grand yazoo speculation some | iirtji years ago hordes of indians who ve till plain cases are now conjured up and under pretended purchase a set of ravenous speculators arc carrying every thing before them already have they novjn up the sales at columbus ; and af ter devouring that carcass they have com menced here 1 feel much embarrassed '"' lhis subject many of my warm friends re interested in them ; some few compa ratively of the claims themselves are good in in an attempt to stem this current 1 odds arc against me on every score jj public duty Â« " the subject de rves the serious consideration of con the carolina watchman bruner & james ) editors & proprietors \ " keer a cnfck 5 ai1 y"vr ' ' 1 is safe ( new series ftcixrs i mi . and liberty < _â€¢ gen'l harrison } number 12 of volume ii salisbury n c july 19 1845 gress as scleral of that body are either 1 directly or indirectly interested in these claims whose influence with persever ance and importunities of the claimants as lobby members will i fear have the effect of forcing them through without re flection or a strict regard to the interest ofthe united states it is apparent that under a very few good cases one of the grandest schemes of fraud is non in prig ress and near con summation that has ever beta started iu this country compendium ef testimony taken before the select committee on the pari of the house of representatives of the slate ef mis sissippi to whom nets referred the exam a nu na ion of the frauds charged to have in i n committed under the 14th article of the treat ij ef dancing rabbit creek 30th january 183.3 colonel william ward united states agent for the choctaws at the time of the treaty aforesaid being sworn answered as follows : " that he knew of no company formed for the purpose of purchasing choctaw lands ; that he kept a registry of names to register applicants under the 14th article when application was made according to the treaty ; that when one indian applied for himself he registered him but when one applied for many he refused notifying him at the same time that each must apply for himself he re gistered all these applications in a bond book sent to the war oflice from three to six of these indians who had properly applied were accidentally omitted on my register general john watts of jasper being sworn says : " a company was formed â€” he saw the agents of this company at ball ! plays surrounded by several hundred in dians making their marks for them on blank sheets of paper and apparently ta king the number of their children when the indians did not themselves touch the paper and the indians when he saw this had no interpreter c lames ellis member of the legislature from xeshoba concurs in the statement f general watts and also knows some of the indians who went west and have since returned or been brought back and whose names are among those now presented as having a right to reservations ; and that he was told by one of those agents if he would introduce no resolution in the legislature calculated to bring this fraud before congress he would not interfere with him in his county matters that the government had left the door open to fraud and it was no harm to make use of it general samuel dale member from lauderdale knows of locations having been made in his county which locations he presumes were made under lhe 1 41 li article on which no indian has ever lived to his knowledge and on which there is no mark of field or house ; and on which he does not believe any indian has lived for fifty years and lhe.se floats were laid on lands on which white men were settled who had before they heard of the loca tion of said floats gone to columbus to buy these lands at the public sales hon samuel j gholson states that a company was formed to obtain indian claims ; that he heard a man who called himself fisher say at columbus that if the settlers residing on the lands located for the indians would bind themselves not to oppose the claims the company would convey the settler a quarter section to in clude his improvement at 1 xj5 per acre and the residue at 8 per acre ; and woud not require pay till title was perfected â€” said fisher also stated that he had no doubt if the company were let alone they would be able to get title to land for all the indians that had removed in the coun try whether they had been registered or nut : and that he did not believe that any other signification of intention on the part of the indians to become citizens would be required than proof of their being in the country at that time i heard d ii mor gan say that he believed a great many in dians had gone west of the mississippi in ignorance of their rights ; that the compa ny had an agent west buying indian claims and bringing the indian back to the choctaw nation it is said morgan a first-rate business and i have an inter est in it said fisher stated that they were to get one-half the lands and that they would cost the company some ten cents per acre g w donnell editor of the southern argus a whig paper at columbus stated that there was great excitement against the company : to allay the opposition and excitement it was proposed to take in one hundred popular men i was spoken of but believing the claims fraudulent refus ed to have any thing to do with them â€” mr l n hatch was the projector of this plan mr lionnell said it was one ofthe most stupendous frauds that had ever been attempted and could be easily blown up ifcc william dodd member from attala said there was great excitement : that col boyd of attala had informed him that certain propositions had been made to him to become interested that it was the ob ject of the company to get as many men of influence interested with them as pos sible so that all could make a handsome profit : and that those popular men could allay the prejudice and opposition to those hclaims most ofthe land floated was first rate ; and the indians had never lived on h isaac jones member from winston said !)>â€¢- knew many indians who had left the country and went west with the otherin dians at the expense of the government hand were gone about twelve months and have returned to this state with the guns they received from the government mr lusher told me he was locating agent for tin indians and was among the indians above alluded to ; that many sections were reserved in winston on which as he be lieved no indian ever did live â– general stephen cocke senator from monroe states that from the reports and statements of oihers he believes many and great frauds have been attempted ; that diaries fisher informed him that his com pany had obtained some two thousand sec tions from the indians of which they were to have one half for their trouble ; that the company consisted of said fisher william m gwin a f young d w wright wiley davis and one porter of tennessee fisher said the indians were to have one thousand sections himself five hundred and gwin and the rest the bal ance fisher c co had got from the in hdians and irrevocable power of attorney to all said one thousand sections for the indians many of these lands were loca ted and on lands very superior to those the indians lived on he knows several chickasaws that were passed ofl as choc â– aws and had lands located general falconer colonel home john c thomas bmembers of the legislature also testified mpreamblc and resolutions relative to the i choctaw treaty anel certain alledged i frauds i whereas the united states did by a leertain treaty held and made with the htribe of choctaw indians residing for the htirne being within the limits of the state hot mississippi to wit : the treaty of dan icing rabbit creek made and concluded ion the twenty-eighth day of september la d eighteen hundred and thirty : i and whereas by the 14th article of said ireaty certain reservations of land were ijranted to such indians as should remain imi such land for five years next succeed ing such treaty : i and whereas such claimants were by lhe 14th article in the treaty referred to l.ompelied to signify their intention of l-iaiming under the provisions of said trea ly within six months after the ratification ihercof or forever forfeit the right thus re quired : b and whereas it appears from recent de bycloptnents that the large claims to land bhave been preferred conveying the richest band most valuable portious ot the unsold bchoctaw lands and purporting to be foun bded on and growing out of the treaty a bbove relerred to and un a part of which bland thus claimed no choctaw indian beither dons now or ever did reside : b and whereas it is evident from the facts bof the case that these claims are mani bfestly unjust in their character oppressive bin the result ol their operation on the free bmen of mississippi and calculated to se bcurc no ultimate benefit to the indian ori iginally claiming but in their consumma ition will have direct tendency to impair ithe confidence which the good people of ithis state have in the correctness of the llaw and in the honesty of the administra llors of our public institutions w and whereas this body have satisfacto iry evidence of the fact that a large por ition ofthe claims to said land under the provision of the treaty already referred to are set up and attempted to be sustained on the testimony of indians who are un acquainted with the nature of an oath and utterly regardless of the obligation thus incurred and on the testimony of oth er individuals wholly unworthy of the con fidence of a moral and intelligent com munity and whereas the permission of such abandoned and licentious profligacy would injure our community disgrace our social and political compact and license corrup tion and perjury to stalk at large through our land : now therefore be it resolved by the legislature of he slate of mississippi that our senators in congress be instructed and our represen tatives requested to use the most speedy and efficient means to prevent the consum mation of such of said titles to said land as have originated in fraud to the end that the aforesaid land may be disposed of in the regular way and in accordance with the law in such case made and provided resolved that his excellency charles lynch be requested at as early a date as may be possible to furnish our senators and representatives in congress with a copy of the foregoing preamble and reso lution and with the testimony taken there on with a request that they lay the same before both branches of congress hermitage jan 19 1s41 dear sir â€” i have received this morn ing by mail the enclosed pamphlet i re fer to page 1 1 of said pamphlet for my enclosing it to you there my name is used sow i state without fear of con tradiction that there was no one as my agent ever purchased a foot of land from the choctaws these purchases i have always believed were the most stupen dous frauds ever attempted upon the go vernment i think so still and if proper ly investigated will i have no doubt be fully established to prevent fraud the choctaw treaty conferred reservations to include the indian improvement instead of approving these sales 1 always viewed them as frauds of the blackest kind and do still ; and believe that there is not one of them ought to be confirmed to a white man scarcely able to wield my pen i have thought it right to say thus much to you in your situation ; and am very respect fully vour obedient servant andrew jackson from the paulding miss true democrat no iv dr wm m gwin : of late gracious sir i see in the newspapers you and your special friends are taking a vast deal of pains to purge your character of indian speculations and frauds it would afford me great pleasure to recant the unfavor able declarations which i make against 3'our private and public reputation could i do so consistently with a sense of pub lic duty if you have any thing to say or prove that will rebut the testimony of gen stephen cocke taken before the select committee on the part of the house of re presentatives of the state of mississippi in the name of your own reputation pro duce it to the people where is col fish er why do you not produce his state ment if to be had to establish your inno cence ? gen cocke says " that charles fisher informed him that his fisher's company had obtained some two thousand sections of land from the indians for which the company was to have one-half that the company consisted of said fisher yourself a f young d w wright wiley davis and one porter of tenn his testimony went on further to establish that the indians were to have a thousand sections fisher five hundred and yourself and others the remainder being more than five hundred sections that the company had procured an irrevocable power of at torney from the indians to their one thou sand sections that they were located on lands superior to those occupied by the in dians and that the company passed off several chickasaw indians for choctaws and had their lands locettcel but your sinking reputation required some great effort to retrieve it â€” therefore you wrote to gen jackson to certify to your good character did you inform him that you were of the company engaged in indian speclations ? if you had be kind enough to read what he would have said to you in reply : " no one as my agent ever purchased a foot of land from the choctaws these purchases 1 have always believed were the most stupendous frauds ever attempt ed upon the government 1 think so still and if properly investigated will i have no doubt be fully established â€” general jackson's letter to t liar tie ij crawford com ind aff jetn 19 1814 now sir gen'l cocke connects your name with these choctaw purchases and gen jackson pronounced them in 1844 " the most stupendous frauds ever attempted upon the government had you stated to gen jackson that you were one of the company engaged in buying indian scrip and reservations he would have declared the depravity of your cause and the justice of public indignation at one period you stated there were many honest indian speculators ; of late neces sity has driven you as i am informed to a shifting ofthe whole ground of your de fence at first you told the people no thing could be clearer than the justness of your intentions towards the choctaw tribe of indians but it seems now that you have been interested in their affairs fur ther than your love of mankind would justify your love for the poor indians has no precedent unless it is in that man who with one hand puts a shilling in the urn of charity and with the other takes out a pound perhaps sir i am somewhat severe â€” yet doctor that wounded spirit shall be healed by no measured apology when you have made your defence com plete you are now sir an appellant to the public in the cause of your reputation and if the people find that you have been the innocent subject of vituperative slan der they will make with you common cause and heartily join in your resentment you once had the respect and esteem of your state â€” but your virtues of which the people then boasted are now disgrac ed that honor for which you were so high ly esteemed is now lost if your public conduct and private acts do not deserve the punishment which the present appear ance of things inflict upon you in view of common light i will not only cease to in vade your reputation but at once devote my pen to the cause of injured innocence jefferson oct13 here is another article extracted from the " yicksburg sentinel of may 20th 1844 edited by walter hickey this article is not editorial in the " senti nel but a communication as will appear from its heading this we also copy lit erally â€” submitting it to the reader with no other remark than that he shall read it and form his own conclusions as to the truth of its statements and the extent to which mr fisher is implicated in the frauds charged upon the speculators there in named and spoken of correspondence ofthe vicksburg sentinel leake co may d capl hickcy â€” dear sir â€” we seldom get a sight of your paper every man in this county opposed to the choctaw spec ulators would take it if they believed it would ever reach them lt would make your hair stand on end to hear the curses that are lavished on you and lavins â€” robins and claiborne come in for a full share and indeed the whole democratic party of vicksburg the hopahka peo ple are dreadfully flurried and they take it out in cursing the people here are delighted at your course they wish to see the speculators put down put we are afraid to speak above our breath â€” there are so many bullies and despera does at work that one's life would not be safe an instant the poor indians â€” but of them i will speak in my next i send you this by private hand pray do not disclose my name and if you write to me direct your letter to ofahoma or thomas town but by no means to hopohaka â€” send the sentinel for me once a week to the mississippian ollice jackson i will write lo uen price and ask him to send it to me by private hand ; if it conies by mail i wiil never get it and to be known as a subscriber will put my life in danger and expose my family to insult from for ester and his crowd i scott county i dear sir â€” we are delighted to see you i in the shoes of dr i lagan raking down i the speculators the people are with you i the best land in this county i.s claimed by i the indians who have all agreed to give i one half to jack smith : a man with one i eye can see that he will get the whole of i it jack is a right good fellow in other i respects but our citizens cannot see where i in his right lies to so many thousand a i cres ofthe best land in the countv claim i ed by these indians and for which he has i not paid a dollar i kemper county i dear sir â€” send me two copies of the i sentinel the enclosed warrant if sold i at the usual rate will pay for them and i leave a balance which you can deposite i for me with mr bowman of jackson ofl the firm of bowman and wilson mail i con ii actors we \\ ant you to pour a con 1 stant fire upon the speculators we know i them well here forester has several a i gents in this county and his strikers arc i constantly among the indians ben mc i ilvaine of this county is his right hand i man ; they expect to get 300,000 worth i of scrip out cf the indians under mcll i vaine's control mellvaine is a democrat i but you will spare no man on account of i his politics forester and his partners i have taken deeds and bonds from all the i indians in anticipation of the action of the i board iu the adjoining county of nes i hoba things are just as bad shortly af i ter the treaty charles fisher and sandy i young went through the country and i bought up the mug-ga-busha claims for a i mere trifle they were the partners of i judge wright and dr gwin big hugh i mcdouold was their interpreter there i are several thousand ofthese indians the i most ignorant lazy drunken creatures in i the nation mcdonald has lived constant i ly among them and has perfect control i over them for some reason or other he i has entered into new contracts with them i and though he has never been worth a i dollar he now holds deeds from all those i indians and if he board allows their claims h he will be master of several hundred thou i sand acres of land nothing is now claim h ed by fisher lie appears only as mc i donold's attorney mcdonold claims tu i be attorney for the indians he was ori i ginally interpreter for fisher and gwin h it is in this way that fisher and gwinde i ny having any interest they claim mil h lions in the names of other men there i are two other speculators in neshoba h jacoway and clements the former is a i partner of foresters and claims all the h indians over in sumpter county many of i whom are free negroes with black skins i flat noses and wooly heads thpy swore i they were indians and the board receiv i ed their testimony as i have been told â€” i no jury here would attach a feather's i weight to such testimony jacoway is i forester's principal striker clements is i a man of some little property ; i know no i thyig of him of my own knowledge but i have heard jacoway say that he could i send him to the penitentiary for a trans i action in the land office at columbus â€” i these speculators are so jealous of each i other that they are constantly at war ac i cusing each other of swindling i passed i one flay at yazoo village while the board i sat there and heard both forester and i jacoway speak in the most insulting way i of fisher and clements and i afterwards i heard judge wright say at his own room i as col fisher rode by that he was the i greatest villain then living and that mc h donald knew it i am willing to make i oath to this col graves and the hon â– thomas j word and mr ellis the in i trrpreter were all present he said that â– he the judge had bought in the indian i rights and had paid mcdonald to interpret â– for him ; that fibber and gwin were m â– h^'th him ; that they had bought up me â– onald and shuttled every thing over in jii-s name and now when they had got a board favorable to the claims and were mahout to realize a fortune they were try hng to swindle him out of every farthing ; hhat he had depended ou gwin ; but that hie had been up and had shuttled as much his any of them and that he judge wright h-miild and would blow the whole claims in the devil ! â€” i repeat that mr word mr ellis and col craves heard this iu hny presence aud 1 have no doubt the kame was heard at oilier times by every on the ground wright and were very intimate claiborne m.m.-kae ami ellis all occupied the same and i doubt not they can prove what ll say 1 have been astonished that col in bis publication did not touch hon these matters he can prove all he wants to prove by judge wright and oth crs 1 am sure now that i think of it h.mr mcrae stated many of fisher's ma bmruvres at pattern's springs last summer hand i expect can tell more than any other ilium about this whole fraud for he is an observing man and ge.es into every crowd iitnion iiotelt molksvii.le.n.r.gj i the undersigned ll espectfully tnnoonc to the j.iit.lu ihai they h a have recently packaged ib_l luge and commodi h ~ fubli lloiiso in mocksville !>.:... coonty _. th i 7/.?otrl i they have refitted and newly famished the same anj opened it for ihe me of the public j those aegiiamt with this taiid.it will he nnneceasary lo say that the is nearly new ; tiie rooms large and airv of nn i un.tru.tiuti and that the entire e_:ahl___niien u ith its hout-i.iiil line's and ljaiit ground most cnnitnodioiisly and comfortably arrange the attention ofthe undersigned will be directed lo comfort and well being ol those who may honor with their patronage â– h v ft reynolds h mocksville february jo 1845 â€” v44 iciieap cheaper cheapest ! r i h i â€¢' suhsoriher respertfn ____! " s___h i b iy r1 ln i l f # j i lrsrl lu l*u5)''c t'i:it '"* stl t'uÂ»"i â– -- iu carry on i m *\ v__>_u'__._.__i _Â£_ ja-siaaobi-a-s in salisbory on main str.-.-t a few doors nth of j __ bu ivforphy's store and josl opposite the rowan hotel i he has on hand a large assortment of furniture and in his employment t!i best of workmen and uses th ]â€¢â€¢â– >-. materials the country affords he has on hand bat all times an assortment of such work as will suit the swan of the i oun try such is bureaus sideboards see bre/>iri cup-boards tables candle-stands wash wstands bedstead i cane bottom and windsor chairs fyc â– a neat assortment of coffins constantly kept on hand so that any p r on can i e accommodated in thai line and hum prices shall be made to snit costomers not only in thut hartiele hm in ail ofthe above mentioned articles the subscriber would say to the public that they would do hwell to call ami examine before they purchase as !Â«â€¢ m ht.-nds hereafter to s.-il cheaper than work has ever bern hsold in this state h a . kinds of country produce and lumber will betaken in exchange for work david watson â– salisbury april 19 1845 2stf i look at this i cheap pf ubniture i r â– 1 he subscriber respectfully informs hi friends and h l the public that he sti.l continues to carry on the i cabinet l;i\i_i f.u ine lin salisbury on main street a few doom south of j & w m - store and just opposite the watchman printing mo_.ce and keeps in his employment the best of work - im i he has on hand al all times such w..ik as will suit ithe wants of the peop i â€” buch as mahogany * iheny and i walnut sideboards bureaus secretaries china-pn icupboards tables bedsteads ladies work-stands candle-stands v i he also has on hand a large and neal imwuiiiii ill of if'offin and will constantly keep a supply arranged hi in the small st to th largest bile i all jobs done by me shall be in tli best style and ih h-harge lower than i any other shop of the kind in this iplace all kinds of country produce and lumber will bu taken in exchange for work a reasonable credit will he given to punctual dealers kincheon elliott april 5th i_4 49 ly ff_rspring wi sum__.er_a i":iÂ»|iiu:is for 1*15 at iln old tailoring establishment horace ii beard has just received ol mr f u_t , the i.ondon pan ri ml philadelphia l ion for the spring !. sttmmer of 1844 which far surpasses any thin f the kind heretofore published he stiil earn.-s on the tailoring business in all its various branches al h - o d stand where he is ev.-r ready 7o me i and ae ommodate his old ami new customers with fashionable cutting and making of tru ments not to be surpassed by any in th southern coun try punctuality d a faithful work as has been always shall be his aim and object thankful for past encouragement he hopes tf merit its continuance p s reference he deems unnecessary as hi rxperi ni and work forth last thirteen yean i , show april 12 1845 --.-.- ' h h beard new spring and summer fashions for 184 ! thomas dickson respo tfnl yinforamhis-frienda and the public that he still carries on the tai loring business in all i7 various branches two doors ahove j &. w murphy's or where te :- ready to execute all orders ol his customers ia a . y,e and man ik r i j â€¢ â– - inferior to any work don in ihi par of the coon try he is also in the regular receipt of th sew ytillk fashions and prepared to accommodate the tastes ofthe fashionable at ali times the following ia a list of hia price for making fine cloth coat 5 ofl " " thin summer coat â€¢'* m " janes coat 2 00 2 so " pants 1 m j)ty all orders lor mill stones oi the best grit and ou the shortest notice ai.o tor sale at ilir lowest ri'-'-s window sills floor sills door st j rough building rocks tomb stones gold grinders a c ajc j holtshouser sali.bury nov â€¢_, 1844 â€” lj21 n ij orders for any of the above wrought articles directed to nie at salisbury will be punctually attended to j ii